Then why are they so darned FAT?!
If the students have to pay for lunch, why is anyone dictating what they an eat?
Yay!
The Lefties have been trying to take away everything that brings any comfort or joy, probably to try to make us all miserable and at each other’s throats. It’s good that chocolate milk is back, and Christmas too (sort of).
my my my....so one pompous woman sitting in Washington, D.C. really DOESN’T know best what 330 million Americans should eat. Color me shocked.
Yeah, the michelle obama starvation diet was very healthy.
“Failing to meet the science-based sodium standards for school meals originally adopted by USDA will put kids’ health in jeopardy,” the statement read.”
Oh noesssss, the school kids are all gonna die from eating hamburgers and macaroni and cheese for lunch! I always liked the fish on Fridays.
The best solution of all would be to end government schools. Let the busybodies find some other way to meddle in our lives.
I remember the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls so big and sticky, you had to use a fork to eat them. We had 50 kids in our class and our school had such breakfasts once a month. Those breakfasts gave the boys all the energy they needed to play energetic flag football during the two recesses. The lunch recess was the longest and the boys would come in with head to toe mud on them. Were there injuries? Not a bit. Was there a fat one among them? No.
The girls played skip rope, dodge ball and hop scotch. Were there injuries? Not a bit. Was there a fat one among them? No.
Today, the only ones getting their exercise are the lawyers as they walk through the halls of the court houses.
Finally, I ask if this is a strategy using the selection of the fittest to modify the human through genetics to the Western diet?
Yeah she eats caviar and drinks champagne for lunch
Yeah she eats caviar and drinks champagne for lunch
Guess I’ll be the one who does the “Back in my day” post.
For the most part, school lunches used to be real food. Chicken pie, green beans, corn, peas, pinto beans, vegetable soup, grilled cheese with tomato soup, cole slaw, turnip greens, baked beans, country style steak, mashed potatoes, square pizza, peaches, pears, yeast rolls, hot dogs, french fries, a pint of whole milk or chocolate milk, etc. If a kid wanted two milks, all he had to do was pay for the extra milk, no problem.
There weren’t contracts with fast food companies to bring in product and the cafeteria staff (lunch ladies) usually cooked most of the food instead of dumping it on warming trays. I can’t even remember how many fundraisers were held by selling the school cafeteria’s chicken pies, but those things were delicious.
I’m sure there was food wasted but there were also a lot fewer grossly overweight kids back then, even with ice cream that could be purchased for 15 to 20 cents at afternoon snack time.
I can’t remember if kids could opt out of any of the foods but I don’t think we could. The trays were passed down the line with the ladies ladling (or plopping) the food on the tray and you either paid at the end of the line when you got your tray, or you had your pre-paid lunch ticket punched (that you were responsible for and couldn’t lose).
Nope, school food is definitely not what it was when I was a kid and that’s pretty sad.
Peach
Is that the same former first lady who liked having fresh lobster delivered and grilled at the white house?
“Just put the cook and the lobsters on a plane and get them over here. Les’ go!! Don’t worry about the money! You’ll be gettin a big tip too. Just be here with it by dinnertime tonight. Can you do it, yes or no? Good!! My husband doesn’t need to know about this.”
Make it stevia sweetened chocolate milk.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Note that President Thomas Jefferson had indicated in a State of the Union address that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before the feds could regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schools, something that the states have never done.
On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting SCOTUS justices and a constitutional lawmaker had clarified that powers not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphasis added]." —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe (See middle of third column.)
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So former FLOTUS, along with low-information school administrators, did not understand that feds have no constitutional authority to dictate policy for school lunches, or most other aspects of intrastate affairs.
Bringing back brown cow that was eliminated by the brown cow.
a little chocolate milk won’t hurt our kids
and it was stupid as Hell to deprive them of it
Yaaaay. Love chocolate milk